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Birds Britannica
by: Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.0941
EAN: 9780701169077
ISBN: 0701169079
Label: Chatto & Windus
Manufacturer: Chatto & Windus
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 484
Publication Date: September 01, 2005
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release Date: September 01, 2005
Studio: Chatto & Windus
Sales Rank: 36848

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Best for Birds
This is the warm, authorative but friendly book of British birds that every bird lover needs. It covers each distinct type of bird and has plenty of interesting facts and anecdotal stories to lift it above being a stuffy encyclopaedia of birds. The pictures and illustrations are perfect for the book. Highly recommended.

Rating:

- I agree
Yes, this book is everything the other reviews say it is. If you like a bit of social history and literature with your birds, you will find this a satisfying read. Above all, Cocker is 'a good writer', which means his prose is always palatable at the very least.

Rating:

- A Cut Above Your Average Bird Book

There are literally hundreds of Bird Books on the shelves of Bookshops these days. Why do we need so many? Well we don't really, apart, that is, for the fact that printing techniques, particularly colour ones, have changed so dramatically that photographs virtually leap off the page at you. For example, a Robin looks the same now as it did a hundred years ago, so the bird book I had thirty, or even twenty years ago should depict the Robin in exactly the same way. Well hardly, as I said above printing has changed and the advance of the camera is phenomenal.

What used to be `stock or library photographs,' appearing in the same format in book after book have now been superseded by new and vibrant photographs of close-ups of ... Read More:

Rating:

- quite simply superb
This superb, lavishly illustrated book deserves pride of place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in birds, British natural history or the relations between humans and other animals.

The text draws as much from literature, anecdote and social/cultural history as it does from ornithology but that only widens and deepens its impact. At times the book is quite numbingly sad (without being mawkish or sentimental), leaving the reader with a sense of outrage at our historical, and to some extent ongoing, treatment of wild birds. Although, it has to be said, the story isn't all one of cruelty and exploitation. In short this book perfectly captures our species' contradictory attitudes to wild animals very accurately indeed.
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- Engrossing but sad
A wonderful book for dipping into, full of stories and nuggets that the kids are fascinated by. Much of the book focusses on the relationship between man and bird. This can reach heights in beautiful poetry but also lows of quite numbing accounts of cruelty. The birds are not sentimentalised and come out of this book a lot better than we do.

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